On Saturday, August 9, the group will host the 2008 Human Rights Olympics at Folly Beach. Some of the events? Well, not exactly the typical ones. There will be a 100-yard dash ... with your legs shackled. Oh, and I hear the free speech high hurdles will be a huge draw: It's a race to censor a report on human rights in China.

The fun starts around 1 p.m. at 5th Street East and Arctic Avenue on Folly Island. Did I mention that the whole thing is free?

The events, held 1:00pm on August 9 on Folly Beach, parallel China’s awful human abuses on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. Amnesty hopes to use fun competition to attract people’s interest and support for pressuring the Chinese regime to change tactics.

Participants will enjoy free food and be offered opportunities to support the campaign against Chinese religious oppression, cultural rape of Tibet, crackdowns on free speech, mass detentions and executions, and other blatant abuses.